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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1910
Page
4
A fragmented 1910 Marshfield Times column offers pithy jokes on weather, travel, and social topics. It critiques fashion, aviation hopes, and politics with humorous asides, mentioning Chicago fish, Nicaragua, and Maine’s highway spirit while musing on virtues and vices across society.
An agricultural note extols early spring vegetables, focusing on asparagus and strawberries. It emphasizes soil quality, liberal manuring, and thorough cultivation to maximize yields, claiming large profit gains from fertilizing the entire strawberry bed and encouraging year to year returns.
Simple garden guide lists quantities to plant for an average family. Details cover asparagus, beans, beets, Brussels sprouts, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, cucumbers, lettuce, onions, peas, peppers, radishes, rhubarb, spinach, savoy, and turnips. The note warns against crowding plants and emphasizes sunlight for foliage crops.
The hog turns good feed into marketable meat, rewarding careful feeding. It uses inexpensive feeds and yields valued pork, making hogs a key feature of farm economy and often decisive for farm profits.
The passage explains traditional cream cheese production: genuine cheese made from rich cream thickened by souring or sweet cream with rennet. The curd is drained in cloth for about four days, then placed on a board with a cloth, salted, and turned. Ready for consumption in five to ten days.
Describes a cattle dehorning chute using heavy timber sills and uprights four by four inches, a trough shaped H piece of two by four stock, and a rope-and-pole halter system. The animal is secured, head placed in position, and held while the operation is performed. The chute widens from three feet at the front to eight inches at the rear.
Sparta an appeal has been taken in the Monroe Reed versus W M Van Antwerp fishing case. A decision restrained the defendant from entering the plaintiff's premises above the La Crosse river high water mark. The appeal seeks to decide if a fisherman can cascade or row the stream to fish there. The Sparta Rod and Gun club bought 100 acres above the farms to use as a public way into the river to fish. Local landowners oppose fishing to the river inside or outside the high water mark.
Chicago hosted a four day Layman's National Missionary Movement congress beginning May 4 with about 4000 delegates from Protestant churches nationwide. Prominent figures including ex Vice President Fairbanks and governors attended. A national missionary policy was adopted to be presented at Edinburgh. Speakers included J A MacDonald and Prince T H M Yun among many church and civic leaders.
An apparent churchman from Avondale Station, Birraington, reports a cure after using a laxative tonic advertised in the Incal paper. Rev J D Lapley of the Methodist Episcopal Central Alabama Conference sought the free bottle and claims rapid relief from constipation and digestive distress. A Quincy, Illinois patient is shown as cured, with Dr Wor and a Dr. Wor reference listed for advice and purchase options.
A grouchy man laments polite talk and recalls a hectic night with his four year old who swallowed a safety pin. He describes the incident as an accident and mocks Jones for calling it otherwise.
Frayed OCR shows a legal style notice from Cheney and Co promising large damages for misuse of their claim. The text mentions taking an oath, city Toledo, and a December date with names like Frank Cheney and A. W. Gleabom. It promotes Hall’s Family Liver and a cure for certain ailments with claimed internal benefits.
London Daily Telegraph recounts the discovery of the freshwater eel in the extremely deep Messina straits where whirlpools lift marine life rarely seen. The event sheds light on the life history of a mysterious fish.
A confrontation unfolds as a reader-critic quips to a prominent clergyman about church management. The clergyman, surprised, learns the critic is the editor of the paper addressed. The piece notes outdated home remedies for bruises and felons deemed costly and outdated by today’s standards.
A compact quip notes the perils of costly gifts causing mischief. It extols plain wisdom, a clear head, and warm heart as guiding traits for handling generosity and social conduct. The brief lines reflect a Victorian or early 20th century social sentiment.
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